CUBA, June 29, 2009. Religious persons coming from Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay and Cuba, gathered on Monday at the 2nd Latin American Workshop on Popular Communication, condemned the military coup perpetrated against the people of Honduras. During a meeting held at Havana’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center, the director of that institution, Reverend Raúl Suárez, asked for a stronger reaction from the US government against that serious crime, and denounced the injustice committed against the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly incarcerated in the United States. He highlighted that the refusal of the US Supreme Court to review their case is an example of the bitterness, hatred and revenge accumulated by the US administrations playing along with the Cuban extreme right in that country. He affirmed that the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center, the Cuban Council of Churches, and the Evangelic Seminary of Theology in central Matanzas province, have committed themselves, in a pastoral way, to accompany the relatives of Gerardo Hernández, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and Gerardo Hernández. Eugenia Valey, from the Maya Vkux Be Association of the Waqibkej Convergence, said that it’s not possible to return to the nights of dictatorships in Latin America, and defended the rights of native peoples to their sovereignty. Also expressing their solidarity with the Honduran people were the rector of the Evangelic Seminary of Theology in Matanzas, Reinerio Arce, and Germán Obando, from the Ecuadorian Indian People Foundation. (Cubaminrex- ACN) |